Class reference from parsing a string?

rubyonrails-talk
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Say I have a model class called Game. I also have a string call 'game'. How can I do some parsing magic on the string to have a reference to the model Game. So I can perform class methods. (Game.find(1))

thanks

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'game'.camelize.constantize.find 1

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Vary dangerous, you need to be sure what is inside this string. it's like the notorious Eval.